When my pop's was a boy in the mid 50s, they were playing by a freight train passing, a chain from a flat car was whipping and sparking and almost got his cousin. It made a big impression on him.
I was a carman 10 years or so ago, I was performing a pre departure yard inspection, had a train laying up on the track next to me, same direction as I was walking. Apparently, a piece of lumber broke free on a bulkhead, K.O.d me. I was out cold for at least 4 hours until another carman found me when they heard my radio in the middle of the yard.
17:11 Yikes! At first glance, I thought that was a ghost floating alongside the flat car. A vivid safety warning indeed. "Stand well back, or this could be you..."
I was rail fanning it a couple days ago and the train driver on a Norfolk Southern local he have a huge smile I ever seen out all my years of I think I made his day
The "Blaster" is actually called a "Undercutter" and is used to remove ballast and cleanout the track foundation. This one is a smaller version, larger ones are on dedicated track machines. As a signal tech, they are great at ripping out tour rack leads and signal cables..LOL Cheers Gregg..
I worked on an under cutter gang once. The machine also knocked the ties off dug the dich I had to get in the ditch and threw the ties out by myself all day long .I wasn't in the union yet the Forman didn't care if I lived or died.
I have noticed on multiple VR clips that locomotives have been dropping into this spot, hence the telltale mud on the rails. After the undercut is finished, is the plan to replace the ballast to stabilize the sub-roadbed? Or, is there more to it?
@@tedm5398 Yes , new ballast will fix it short term, but unless the clay is dug out and new material put in under the ballast, the "mud" will work its way back up . Mud holes are a pain and can be a big job to fix properly. Gregg
0:12 CN 3023 EJ&E heritage as DPU 0:28 5-unit light power move 0:40 warbonnet leading an 11-unit light power move 1:22 four P42s and 13 cars, combined trains 3:15 CP Rail hopper, Canadian Pacific AC44CW, BNSF H3 GEVO, and BNSF H1 dash 9 as DPU 4:02 H2, KCS Southern Belle, H1, and three Ferromex SD70ACes 5:18 Loram small grinder in action grinding the crossing in Flagstaff 6:54 a Trackmobile, although this looks like one made by Shuttlewagon (they have a plant in the Hillcrest area of Kansas City, MO) 7:07 Herzog well train 9:06 large transformer and autorack door left open 10:18 MOW closeups in Flagstaff, digging up the ballast under the track 13:09 CP and NS doubleheader in Washington state 13:16 Amtrak 160 "Pepsi" leading the Coast Starlight 13:32 CN doubleheader (again at 18:00) 14:03 NS 8098 on Horseshoe Curve. a Conrail blue engine on former Conrail tracks! 14:24 Amtrak 203 Operation Lifesaver leading 14:40 the tail of a stopped intermodal as a Herzog well train passes in the opposite direction 15:23 CN 3115 BC Rail heritage as DPU 15:53 an red, blue, black, and gold Patriot Rail locomotive 16:04 Loram in La Plata 17:12 dragging tarpaulin 17:50 UP Salt Lake Olympics unit 2002 19:48 NS 1073 leading as it passes another freight train 20:14 more CP+NS 20:31 two NS units pulling an FRA inspection train 21:27 ballast tamping closeup 22:23 ex-KCS hopper. They started painting those hoppers like that around 2006/7 when they started painting locomotives in the Southern Belle colors. KCS has been painting their new covered hoppers plain gray since 2015. 22:33 UP 1995 in elkhart 23:52 Amtrak 145 pulling the Pennsylvanian 24:00 Amtrak business cars on the Sunset Limited 24:18 two UP GEVOs with one FRA coach 24:40 two warbonnets and a KCS unit on the same train 25:30 the excavator on the Herzog well train setting new ties to the side and stops for the Coast Starlight to pass
I love the maintenace tools and machines. Before I started watching VRF I envisioned dozens of men, each with a pick, shovel or sledge hammer, all sweating with no shirt on, swinging their tools in unison while singing "I've been Working on the Railroad'
Welll...if you belong to a cash-short volunteer reailroad museum (and most NEVER have enough money) you WILL see that...but we didn't sing...just sweated in the South Carolina heat in the summer
5:52, Loram Rail grinder, they build these down the road from me in medina minnesota off MN Hwy 55/Olson Memorial and Arrowhead Drive/ Hennipen county Rd 118. been watching them test out every thing the built infront of my house since i was a kid many decades ago on the old Soo Line, now CP
@@jjseibert Spent an hour looking... I see you have a few items I've been acquiring info on but haven't built. What CAD program and 3-D printer do you use?
22:25 That's one way to cut the repainting of equipment for merging railroads, just sell it and let someone else cover the costs. RIP KCS! Well, I see a purchase tomorrow...
In the multiple instances when there are several locomotives running with no cars trailing, is one pulling all? And is it a case of repositioning equipment?
23:55 darn, got excited Amtrak was making the right move by using electrics on the Pennsylvanian.. Makes sense only changing the locomotive once, but still sad they don’t utilize the wires for a good part of its route
I'm surprised Heritage Units doesn't have any of the SD40-2s with the Pac Man logo like the one at 6:21 on their website. They are very unique as well as the remaining hi hood EMDs from NS.
Heat from the dynamic breaking unit, it emits some type of waves(?) that show up purple on the camera. I have seen it said a few times in the chats but am blanking on what actually makes it look like that.
BLUE light/flag rule: The person who set the Blue flag/light in place must be the same person who removes it. In the diesel shop I worked at, once the loco was flagged if you worked on it you attached your tag to it and only removed your tag once your work was done. That way everybody working was accounted for being off/out from beneath the loco before the loco was moved again.
@@dncarac Take your age as stated by your birth certificate, and divide by 2. From now on you're x years old and have x years of experience. In the "odd" years, I find myself switching back and forth between being "x" years old with "y" years of experience and being "y" years old with "x" years of experience. Either way, you wouldn't feel as old.
